water buffalo; carabao · large person or animal · neckerchief slide of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines
köken: From earlier kalabaw, with dropping of /l/ when surrounded by identical vowels in Boholano and Leyte dialects, borrowed from Waray-Waray karabaw, from Malay kerbau, from Proto-Malayic *kAr(ə)baw, ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh (“buffalo”). Compare Central Bikol karabaw, Hiligaynon karabaw, Tagalog kalabaw, Tausug kābaw, Waray-Waray karabaw, Khmer ក្របី…